frappe_docker

Containerizing the frappe bench installation for a development environment

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

Docker
docker-compose

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running

1. Installation Pre-requisites

• Installing Docker Community Edition

  Follow the steps given in here

    Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 02c1d87
  

• Installing docker-compose(only for Linux users).Docker for Mac, Docker for Windows, and Docker Toolbox include Docker Compose

  Follow the steps given in here

    docker-compose version 1.14.0, build c7bdf9e
  

2. Build the container and install bench

• Make sure your logged in as root. Build the container and install bench inside the container as a non root user

  This command requests the user to enter a password for the MySQL root user, please remember it for future use. This command also builds the 3 linked containers docker-frappe, mariadb and redis using the docker-compose up -d, it creates a user frappe inside the docker-frappe container, whose working directory is /home/frappe. It also clones the bench-repo from here

    source build-container.sh
  

  Note: Please do not remove the bench-repo directory the above commands will create

Basic Usage

1. Starting docker containers

   This command can be used to start containers

    docker-compose start
   

2. Accessing the frappe container via CLI

    ./enter-container.sh
   

3. Create a new bench

   The init command will create a bench directory with frappe framework installed. It will be setup for periodic backups and auto updates once a day.

    bench init frappe-bench && cd frappe-bench		
   

4. Set the db host for bench(points bench to the mariadb container) Since the 3 containers are linked

    bench set-mariadb-host mariadb
   

5. Add a site(make sure your current path is /home/frappe/frappe-bench)

   Frappe apps are run by frappe sites and you will have to create at least one site. The new-site command allows you to do that.

    bench new-site site1.local
   

6. Add apps(make sure your current path is /home/frappe/frappe-bench)

   The get-app command gets remote frappe apps from a remote git repository and installs them. Example: erpnext

    bench get-app erpnext https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
   

7. Install apps(make sure your current path is /home/frappe/frappe-bench)

   To install an app on your new site, use the bench install-app command.

    bench --site site1.local install-app erpnext
   

8. Start bench(make sure your current path is /home/frappe/frappe-bench)

   To start using the bench, use the bench start command

    bench start
   

9. Exiting the frappe container and stopping all the containers gracefully

    exit
    docker-compose stop
   

10. Removing docker containers

    docker-compose rm
    

11. Removing dangling volumes

    The volume frappe on your local machine is shared by the host(your local machine) and the frappe container. Please do not delete this volume from your local machine. Any changes made in this directory will reflect on both the container and the host. The below command specifies how to remain dangling volumes which may be taking up unecessary space on your host.

    docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -f dangling=true -q)
    

To login to Frappe / ERPNext, open your browser and go to [your-external-ip]:8000, probably localhost:8000

The default username is "Administrator" and password is what you set when you created the new site.

Built With

• Docker

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project and make the containers better

Authors

• Vishal Seshagiri

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone who's code was used - Pratik Vyas
• Inspiration - Rushabh Mehta